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In article <1993Jan5.051549.26030@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, asc7556@u.cc (Andrew Corradini/SBDC) writes:
>There seems to be very little actual content going on, despite a bunch of
>(presumably voted upon and therefore interest-heavy) newsgroups devoted to
>alt.uu.xxxxxx.

Alt groups are not voted upon, they can be created without a vote.

>Before flaming me, I neither voted nor participated to
>this point, but would be willing to contribute my somewhat meager
>abilities, skills, and knowledge if more activity were present.  Maybe you
>all feel the same way, and that's the problem....

Perhaps.

>If I am truly missing something, and there is electronic virtual academia
>festering exponentially about my head, please enlighten me.  If, however,
>UU is dying a slow, entropic death, those who originally proposed and
>enthused about it had better get their respective hindquarters in gear and
>plant the seed about which the rest of us might precipitate....

I think there's some progress, mostly in the way of
separate-but-connected-to-UU endeavours like the consultants list, the
freelore initiative and so on.  Also, according to the Usenet
readership statistics the numbers keep slowly climbing.  So while the
virtual academia is not exactly like a grand central station at least
when looked at via the Usenet groups, talking about death is a bit
premature.

>Could we please have some documents/edu-ware/practical whatever put
>on-line, prominently mentioned in the FAQ, and regularly contributed to? 
>I have a bunch of info-packets for entrepreneurial/small businesses on a
>variety of topics, under development, which I would be only too happy to
>contribute when ready -- if there's truly anything going on to make the
>effort worth it....

The nic.funet.fi ftp archive and the gopher server connected to it are
still there, and if you decide to publish your info-packets via the UU
services, I'd be happy to put them in the ftp area.

//Jyrki

Andrew Corradini/SBDC (asc7556@u.cc.utah.edu) wrote:
: I've been checking this newsgroup since July (I suppose about a month
: after the formal proposal was made), less and less frequently as time goes
: by....
:  
: There seems to be very little actual content going on, despite a bunch of
: (presumably voted upon and therefore interest-heavy) newsgroups devoted to
: alt.uu.xxxxxx.  Before flaming me, I neither voted nor participated to
: this point, but would be willing to contribute my somewhat meager
: abilities, skills, and knowledge if more activity were present.  Maybe you
: all feel the same way, and that's the problem....
:  
: 
: If I am truly missing something, and there is electronic virtual academia
: festering exponentially about my head, please enlighten me.  If, however,
: UU is dying a slow, entropic death, those who originally proposed and
: enthused about it had better get their respective hindquarters in gear and
: plant the seed about which the rest of us might precipitate....
:  
: Could we please have some documents/edu-ware/practical whatever put
: on-line, prominently mentioned in the FAQ, and regularly contributed to? 
: I have a bunch of info-packets for entrepreneurial/small businesses on a
: variety of topics, under development, which I would be only too happy to
: contribute when ready -- if there's truly anything going on to make the
: effort worth it....
:  
: (If I am indeed utterly wrong, and have just missed lots and lots of
: fascinating signal in the noise, please flog me with a wet noodle.  If
: not, please flog the originators of this group for (pardon the
: Americanism) dropping the ball.)
:  
: Andrew S. Corradini
: Director, Market Information Services
: Utah Small Business Development Center
: 
: Adjunct Professor of Marketing
: Westminster College
: 

I agree totally.
For my part I would be very interested in participating as a student but
it looks to me like UU is actually missing its original goal as much in
the form as in the content.

Keep the faith...

JS
*:-)

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In article <1993Jan5.051549.26030@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, asc7556@u.cc (Andrew Corradini/SBDC) writes:
>(If I am indeed utterly wrong, and have just missed lots and lots of
>fascinating signal in the noise, please flog me with a wet noodle.  If
>not, please flog the originators of this group for (pardon the
>Americanism) dropping the ball.)

Things don't happen by magic - I am the person who created the UU
groups, set up the ftp archive at nic.funet.fi & the gopher server at
otax.tky.hut.fi, wrote some initial stuff and so on, and I have tried
to make it clear from the beginning that UU is a cooperative volunteer
effort.  Anyone is encouraged to work on things like the consultants
list, the freelore project, and start similar projects - as well as
collect material and guides on how to get information from the vast
resources of Usenet, like the FAQ archives.

//Jyrki